Elbo Room (Venue Partner)
647 Valencia St
415.552.7788
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Yazuka
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Monday Mar 24, 2008 (9pm)
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- Price
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$6
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Yakuza's last album was called Transmutations, which is an appropriate title given the Chicago prog-metal band's tendency to work through a dizzying array of styles during its live sets. Yakuza approach everything from jazzy fusion to full-on thrash with pounding intensity, and are sure to please metalheads looking for a full spectrum of weighty sounds. By contrast, San Francisco's Burmese take a more direct — if brutal — approach. They channel the bile of Whitehouse lyrics (see song titles like "Rapewar" and "Broken Legs, Broken Face, Blood Everywhere") through a sludgy, rhythm-heavy attack, bolstered by the incomparable drum work of Weasel Walter.
